B&D Origin – so far…

January 7, 2010

Our Origin Pro Duo 5000 milling machine is installed, and working.  Sort of.

First, let me say the guys from B&D are some of the nicest people I have had the pleasure of working with in our industry.  They’ve been responsive and helpful, to a fault.

However…

We have milled three materials to date.  The zirconia millings have been excellent.  The marginal integrity of both the copings and full contour units exceeded my expectations, requiring minimal hand finishing.  We milled one titanium coping and it also fit very well.  The PMMA material, which is really of little interest to me since we have a 3D Systems ProJet Resin Printer, required some “dialing in” of the parameters to get a decent result.  At this point, I will probably choose to continue to print castable patterns, thinking of PMMA as a backup material.

Last night, we attempted to mill a handful of full contour patterns in PMMA, and experienced a tool break about half way through the process.  B&D believes the problem may lay in the tool strategy that was used, and has hopefully rectified the issue.   We were unable to verify the new strategy as we experienced another set of problems attempting to mill a titanium bridge, some of which may have been my fault.

B&D is currently looking at the tool strategy for the titanium mill.  I had to leave a little early (Wife and baby both feeling under the weather).  I plan on working this weekend.  My hope is to do as many millings as I can, and make as many mistakes as possible.  Seems to be the way I learn best.

Still experiencing problems loading images from my laptop, so I will take some photos over the weekend and upload from there.  Ciao for now…

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